A PORNSTAR TURNED TUTOR RUNNING FOR MAYOR AND HIS CAMPAIGN, AS YOU IMAGINE, IS CAUSING A CONTROVERSY BUT DAVID MECH IS ANOUTHOR WITH A COLLEGE DEGREE AND HE'S TALKING TO TAMICA ABOUT HIS CAMPAIGN TO BRING CHANGE. MATH TUTOR. PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE. EXPORNSTAR? ALL WORDS THAT COULD BE USED TO DESCRIBE DAVID MEK, BUT IT'S THAT LAST ONE STIRRING UP SOME CONTROVERSY. WHY IS ONE PERSON'S MORALITY NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANOTHER PERSON'S MORALITY? HE SAYS HE TRANSFERRED OUT OF THE PORN INDUSTRY AND NOW HAS A TUTORING COMPANY THAT HE ADVERTISED AT PALM COUNTY SCHOOLS UNTIL THEY ALLEGEDLY STOPPED ALLOWING HIM TO DO SO AFTER FINDING OUT ABOUT HIS PORNOGRAPHIC PAST LAST YEAR. THE ONLY REASON THEY'D WANT TO KEEP A PERFECTLY EDUCATED, NONVIOLENT, VERY GOOD MATH TUTOR AWAY FROM THE STUDENT POPULATION IS COMPLETELY BEYOND ME. DAVID SAYS HIS ONGOING LAWSUIT WITH THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD IS PART OF THE REASON HE WANTS TO RUN. THAT'S WHERE THE LAWSUIT COMES IN AND THAT'S WHERE THE EQUALITY COMPONENT COMES. NOT ONLY DOES HE SAY THE SCHOOL BOARD IS DEFICIENT WITH TECHNOLOGY, EQUATION, SECULAR VALUES AND SEX EDUCATION. IF WE'RE FOLLOWING PEERREVIEWED PUBLIC HEALTH DATA AND NOT TRYING TO DENY THE SCIENCE BUT ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENING, I WOULDN'T NEED TO RUN. HE SAYS IF HE COMMUNICATES AND DOES HIS JOB WELL, THAT'S WHAT IT SHOULD BE ABOUT. NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S IDEA OF MORALITY. SOCIETY DEALT ME THE RULES TO OPERATE THE LAW. I SHOULDN'T BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY MY OWN GOVERNMENT FOR FOLLOWING THEIR RULES. THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD

BOCA RATON, Fla. -

Math tutor, Palm Beach County school board candidate and ex-porn star are all words that can be used to describe David Mech, but it's that last one that is stirring up some controversy.

"Why is one person's morality not more important than another person's morality?" Mech asked.

Mech said he transitioned out of the adult film industry and now owns a math tutoring program, which he advertised at Palm Beach County schools. That is, until they stopped allowing him to do so after finding out about his pornographic past last year.

"This idea why any rational school board would keep a perfectly educated, non-violent, very good math tutor away from their student population is beyond me," Mech told Local 10.

Last year, banners advertising Mech's tutoring business were removed from Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton after the district learned of the adult film company that he also owns.

Mech said the businesses have nothing to do with each other.

"In the letter that I sent to the school district, I explained to them clearly that that business address is a staffed postal center for receiving packages for all the businesses and mail," Mech said in a May 2013 interview with WPBF. "There is no on-site tutoring at any location that I own or any place that I go. It's public cafes or the client's house. So, you know, to say that there's a risk of any kind of cross-exposure between these businesses is ludicrous."

Mech said his ongoing lawsuit with the Palm Beach County school board is part of the reason he wants to run.

"That's where the lawsuit comes in and the equality component comes in," Mech said.

Not only does Mech say the school board is deficient when it comes to equality, but also technology, innovation, secular values and sex education.

"If we were following peer-reviewed public health data and putting condoms in the schools, where they should be, and not trying to deny the science, you know, and all these things were happening, then I wouldn't need to run," Mech said.

He said if he communicates his ideas for a better school board and does his job well, that's what this should be about, not someone else's idea of morality.

"Society has dealt me rules in which to operate called the law," Mech said. "I follow the law. I shouldn't be discriminated against by my own government for following their rules."

A representative for the Palm Beach County school board said the district cannot comment on ongoing litigation.

On his campaign website, Mech claims he is running "to bring about fundamental change in areas where the current board is deficient." Among those areas he mentions is sex education.

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